tinyDebian

tinyDebian consists of bare minimal Bash scripts to build Debian image from scratch. The generated image can be flashed into a Micro SD card and boot NanoPi Neo2 arm64 board.

It is encouraged to read these Bash scripts before generating the bootable sdcard image.

How to:

1. Use repo tool to sync the source code:
   • repo init -u https://github.com/tinydebian/manifest -b nanopi-neo2
   • repo sync -j4
   • repo forall -p -c git checkout nanopi-neo2
2. Change to build/ sub-directory to build.
3. Run './install_tools.sh" to install the necessary tools.
4. Run './build_u-boot.sh' to build U-Boot.
5. Run './build_kernel.sh' to build Linux Kernel.
6. Run './build_debian.sh bootstrap' to bootstrap Debian image for arm64.
7. Run './gen_sdcard_image.sh' to generate bootable SD-card image.
8. Flash bootable sdcard image to Micro SD card:
   • In Windows
   • In Mac OS
   • In Linux, run command as below, ensure /dev/sdX is Micro SD card:
     • sudo dd if=../out/sdcard/sdcard.img of=/dev/sdX bs=4M && sync
9. Insert Micro SD card into NanoPi Neo2 then power on to boot.

Philosophies behind tinyDebian:

• Simple and bare minimal Bash scripts to build Debian image from scratch.
• Starting point to be forked for complex project.

Why we choose NanoPi Neo2 (arm64 architecture) as our default board:

• NanoPi Neo2 is tiny, low cost, arm64 board.

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Contact:

• www.tinydebian.com
• email: tech@tinydebian.com